The Cake challenge!

I know that you've waited for this for a long time, but here we are :-)

The BG-Mamma Forum's Cake Challenge is over! It's “ Judgment day” LOL!

You can see all of the wedding cakes here. The picture I've posted is of my cake, it is called “ Butterfly Bliss- Tandoori”. As you can see I am playing around a lot with my new camera :-) By the way you can leave comments under each cake from the challenge if you want, English or other language, it doesn't matter. :-)

The girls did an amazing job! The most difficult part now is the discussion and the criticism we have to give and receive :-)

Here are couple of words about my cake:

The bottom tier is an old-fashion coconut cake from the Dessert Bible with coconut buttercream ( just bake the coconut and add it to the buttercream), the top tier is mocca cake with chocolate cream with sliced almonds.

I had a lot of work with this one, especially because of the pipping- it took me 1 hour to actually make the inside lace on the cake. This was my first time working with embossers ( lace etc), it took a little bit of practice but at the end it was OK I think, for a first time :-)

The ball is plastic Christmas tree ball, that I covered with fondant and then “glued” it together with water. I cut the pieces of fondant with the embosser and placed them on top of the ball. The butterflies are fondant as well, a little bit of pipping there too.

Overall...my right hand was 3 sizes bigger ( I told you in the previous post how I had a stupid accident, but the pipping made it even worse), so I had trouble taking the pictures, but overall I am OK with the result, because it turned out exactly as I imagined!:-)

The other news is that I officially "left" Webshots and transfered my pictures at Flickr, so I have a new cake albums and collections if you want to see them.

I hope you enjoy it! :-)

News, news, news!!!

Hi all!!!
I have been so busy!!! We finally painted the kitchen, it put a hell of a fight, but so far we win! :-) There is a lot of finishing work we need to do, but it is getting there! :-) Imagine my surprise, when I saw that under the wallpaper we had there, there was a ....countertop!!! Can you imagine?! Who on Earth puts wallpaper on top of a countertop?! Not to mention how unbelievably impossible it is to remove the wallpaper glue that has been stuck to it for God knows how long!
I don't even want to begin with the cabinets, when I tried to wash them ( with soap and water) the varnish fell off! I couldn't believe my eyes! So now, we bought sander and varnish stripper, so we can repaint them. When? I haven't the foggiest! I am trying to put together the children's room, although we are not painting this one now. We are ready for school with all the stuff I had to buy ( boy, these kids grow up fast!)
At the same time I managed to hurt my hand in a stupid accident ( I was going to fall and I was trying to protect my new camera, so I hit the wall with my elbow). It definitely wasn't broken but my hand hasn't been the same since. I'll go to see a doctor this week, because after I made the cake for the cake challenge, I couldn't even move my fingers. :-(
But...the good news is that the cake turned out the way I wanted it to be!
Just be patient! I have A LOT OF PICTURES, but I can show them after 1st of August, when the challenge is officially over. I'll post even my album collection on Flickr, so you can all see the other cakes too! So far we 28 people are participating and the theme is a " wedding cake" :-)
I would not tease you more...just one more thing- my cake had a lot of pipping! :-)Oh, and I tried some new recipes as well! :-)
And at last but not least, these are pictures with my new camera! Thank God I have something decent to take pictures with! The last year was unbelievable with the old broken one!

Hope you all have a great summer !!!

P.S Beth, you are added as well ;-)